William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | Renouncement | By John Daniel Logan (18691929) |
| I BUILT mine altar on thy Heart: | |
Each morn I burned Loves incense there: | |
And thou the hallowed sacrifice | |
Blest with thy dear commemorative eyes. | |
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Now thou art gone into the Night, | 5 |
And Sorrow sits alone with me: | |
Her cold, dumb lips she will not ope | |
To call thee from the sepulchre of Hope. | |
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The darkened house within is still: | |
And though I wistful vigil keep, | 10 |
The winds without cry mournfully | |
That thou, alas! wilt not return to me. * * * * * | |
Ah, though the days that are to come | |
Bring not thy lost form back to me, | |
Yet will I for Loves sake arise | 15 |
Each morn, and to thine Image sacrifice! | | | |
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